Isela Gracian from East LA Community Corporationand Sandra McNeill of TRUST South LA write on NRDC's Switchboard blog that while low-income residents in East and South LA report using transit for most planned trips, owning a car is still necessary for last-minute trips. But with 1 out of 5 Angelenos making less than $25,000 a year, and the cost of owning a car in SoCal averaging at about $9,000/year, this means spending 40% of their household income. That's why, they write, low-income communities are increasingly interested in bikeshare and in the city's new low-income electric carshare program, coming soon to Koreatown, Westlake, Pico-Union, and to neighborhoods north of USC and near Hollywood and Vermont. Move LA sits on the Steering Committee. Read more on Fernando Cazares' Switchboard blog.